Cynthia Zarin (born 1959) is an American poet and journalist.
Life She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.
She teaches at Yale University. She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest, and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre. Other works include libretti for two ballets for the New York-based company BalletCollective, directed by Troy Schumacher, "The Impulse Wants Company" and "Dear and Blackbirds. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Grand Street, The Nation, and are widely anthologized.
She married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced. She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997, but later divorced.
Awards National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry Artist in residence at St. John the Divine. Peter I. Lavan Award New York Women's Press Award for Writing on the Arts Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2002) Guggenheim Fellowship (2011)
Bibliography
Poetry Collections
The Ada Poems, Alfred A Knopf 2010. Orbit, Alfred A. Knopf 2017. List of poems
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedApril2020 Anthologies Norton Anthology of Poetry
Non-fiction
"After Hamlet: A Shakespearian Maverick Comes to Broadway" The New Yorker, May 2008. "Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and The Perils of Childhood" The New Yorker, April 2006. "Teen Queen: Looking For Lady Jane" The New Yorker, October, 2007. An Enlarged Heart, A Personal History, Alfred A. Knopf 2013.
Children's books
References
External links "conversation with Cynthia Zarin", Boldtype " Cynthia Zarin", February 12, 2009, Poetry Series, News Hour, PBS